including Vienna. She also played the title role in Bellini's Norma and Abigaille in Verdi's Nabucco. The critic of Die Woche wrote, "Her Abigaille is a donna di forza, strong in expression and intensely sung – listen to the octave jumps in "Qual Dio vi salva" – she carries out this delicate role with bravura." She also sang the Verdi heroines in Aida, Desdemona in Otello, Leonora in La Forza del Destino, Alice in Falstaff and Leonora in Il Trovatore. Her Puccini roles included the title character in Tosca and Giorgetta in Il Tabarro. She has played all three Janáček heroines, Katya Kabanova, Jenufa, and Emilia Marty in The Makropoulos Case. Ventures into modern repertoire included Fevronia in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, Marie in Berg's Wozzeck, and Die Dame in Hindemith's Cardillac. Rare departures into traditionally mezzo-soprano repertoire were Mélisande in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande and Weir's Blond Eckbert. Lighter pieces included classical operettas, especially Rormaosalinde in Die Fledermaus, and the Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music in Innsbruck in its first Austrian production. She performed the major works of Richard Strauss, such as Salome, the Feldmarschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, and, having sung Chrysothemis in Elektra earlier, Elektra herself. She also played Katerina in Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Salms-Moss's concert programs included works in several languages and styles, in particular the French and Russian repertoire. Salms-Moss became fluent in English, French, German, Italian and Russian. Parallel with her singing career, she became a translator of German texts, including a number of published full-length books, and a member of the international translating group ExperTeam and is currently a freelance translator based in New York. Personal Salms-Moss was married to Karl-Heinz Salms, a German interior designer, from 1974 to 2009, and has two daughters, who have performed with her on stage. She currently resides in New York City. References External links Brown Alumni Magazine Biography 1946 births Pembroke College in Brown University alumni American women singers Living people People from Brooklyn People from Great Neck, New York 21st-century American women